1.1965.1462: Didrachm of Leucas
Coins
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.1462
- Title
- Didrachm of Leucas
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 167-100 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Leukas (Akarnania)
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/171319
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 7.74 g
- Die Axis
- 12
- Denomination
- didrachm
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- Reverse Inscription: [Λ]ΕΥΚΑΔΙΩΝ / ΒΑΘΥΟΣ monogram to r.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Robinson collection. Helbing, 24 October 1928, 2920 = Naville 5, 18 June 1923 (BM dupl.), 1842.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- cf. BCD Akarnanien 296-7; SNG Cop 380; BMC 82-83
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from the Trustees of the Arthur Stone Dewing Greek Numismatic Foundation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.1462
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Obverse: Statue of Aphrodite Aineias to r. with stag; to l., bird-topped scepter and eagle standing r. on thunderbolt; all within laurel wreath.
Reverse: Prow of galley r.; to r., monogram.
Verification Level
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